Harvard Business Review

JULY 20, 2018

Without realizing it, even well-managed businesses versed in modern management practices can generate an environment that is hostile to innovation. For all of these reasons, large companies need to have a distinct Innovation Unit headed up by a senior executive who ideally reports to the CEO.

Innovation 10

Innovation Incubator Stage-Gate Idea Generation 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 6, 2015

Number of ideas generated. ” Putting a number on that understanding of new markets and technologies — whether it makes sense for one’s employer to enter them, and how — is difficult. There’s a danger that measurement sucks up resources better devoted to cultivating and testing new ideas.

Metrics 8

Metrics Innovation Company Stage-Gate 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 21, 2014

Knack’s CEO and founder, Guy Halfteck, assured me that this wouldn’t be the case. “In Hiring Information & technology Job search' As a result I’m no good at gaming. My ineptitude would, I feared, work against me when I played Knack’s games, preventing all my wonderful qualities from shining through. Did I believe that?

Hedge 9

Hedge Efficiency Information Technology Bottom-up 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

When your company is in trouble — a new competitor or technology threatens your business model, your cost structure changes, the economy tanks — you have one job as a leader: to get the company back on track. It involved socializing the idea with RBC Group Executive (GE), the company’s top eight leaders.

Crisis 8

Crisis Banking CEO Business Model 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

I have had more than a few engagements that have come about as a result of the need to repair the carnage and devastation that occurred from the implementation of advice put forth, or the ideas generated by a well intentioned yet unqualified “coach”.

Blog 322

Blog Mentor Advice Brand 322

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Innovation is one those evergreen themes: it is a rare CEO who doesn't list innovation as one her top four or five priorities. None of them involve idea-generation schemes. Rather, they are all about translating ideas into action. But innovation is an elusive beast.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8